Customer Products

Products produced on Fielding and Platt presses are capable of meeting the requirements of British and European standards, as well as the Canadian standards for pre-cast concrete paving flags.

Typical Products manufactured on F&P Presses include but are not limited to: -

Paving Slabs - Plain, polished, non-slip surface slabs, fully and part exposed aggregate type slabs, coloured and patterned slabs. These products are manufactured in a wide variety of sizes and shapes, such as squares, rectangles and hexagons.

Road Kerbs - Straight, radius, dropper type, drainage channels and gutter kerbs.

Other Products - Concrete blocks, which can be split stone wall blocks – an effective and extremely durable substitute for natural stone, silo staves, building system panels, garage panels, tunnel segments, garden edgings, irrigation canal lining slabs, cable cover ducts, etc.

Production rates - The main variable affecting production rates is the type of fine material, i.e., sand and 3mm to dust crushed stone. This determines the pre-set timed pressure dwell, i.e. the time it takes to press excess water from the product and form a dense, transportable “green” product. The pressure dwell also varies with the thickness of the product.

Fielding and Platt hydraulically pressed concrete products may be summarised as having the following features/benefits.

• •    Attractive and excellent surface finish.
• •    Good dimensional accuracy.
• •    High density.
• •    High compressive strength.
• •    Low water absorption.
• •    High resistance to corrosive elements e.g. freeze-thaw conditions, salt and or acid solutions.